MAYA WORLDVIEWS AT CONQUEST

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1 MAYA WORLDVIEWS AT CONQUEST U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S O F C O L O R A D O II si mi n! O)! CO! O) : C

2 vii xi xiii xvii List of Figures List of Tables Foreword by Florine Asselbergs Preface I CHAPTER I Leslie G.Cecil Introduction 17 CHAPTER 2 Elizabeth Graham Close Encounters 39 CHAPTER 3 William M. Ringle "In Recalling Things Past, I Strengthen My Heart": Accommodating the Past in Early Colonial Yucatan 61 CHAPTER 4 PrudenceM. Rice Time, History, and Worldview 83 CHAPTER 5 Gabrielle Vail Cosmology and Creation in Late Postclassic Maya Literature and Art III CHAPTER 6 Andrea Stone Colonial Cave Art in the Northern Maya Lowlands: The Dark Side of the Maya Worldview after the Conquest

3 CONTENTS I3S CHAPTER 7 John E Chuchiak IV De Descriptio Idolorum: An Ethnohistorical Examination of the Production, Imagery, and Functions of Colonial Yucatec Maya Idols and Effigy Censers, CHAPTER 8 MiguelAstor-Aguilera Mesoamerican Communicating Objects: Mayan Worldviews Before, During, and After Spanish Contact 183 CHAPTER 9 Susan Milbrath and Carlos Peraza Lope Clash of Worldviews in Late Mayapan 205 CHAPTER 10 Shankari Patel Religious Resistance and Persistence on Cozumel Island 219 CHAPTER II Diane Z. Chase and Arlen E Chase Changes in Maya Religious Worldview: Liminality and the Archaeological Record 239 CHAPTER 12 Leslie G. Cecil Kowoj Worldview: A View from Tipu 261 CHAPTER 13 JoelW.Palka Agency and Worldviews of the Unconquered Lacandon Maya 279 CHAPTER 14 MarkHowell Music Syncretism in the Postclassic K'iche' Warrior Dance and the Colonial Period Baile de los Moros y Cristianos 299 CHAPTER 15 RobertS. Carlsen Footpath of the Dawn, Footpath of the Sun: Maya Worldviews at Lake Atitlan 317 CHAPTER 16 Timothy W. Pugh Maya Sacred Landscapes at Contact 335 References Cited 407 List of Contributors 413 Index VI

4 I.I Map of major locations mentioned in volume Map of the principal native provinces at the time of the conquest Map of the Cehpech province Genealogy of the principal figures in the Chac Xulub Ch'en chronicle The Maya concept of time as a burden borne by gods Calendars of the Maya area in the sixteenth century A.D. Tun mural, east half of the north wall, Santa Rita Mound 1 Pages 34b-35b of the Dresden codex Emergence of deities from serpents and other creatures from the Madrid codex Page 61 of the Dresden codex serpent pages Lower register of the Dresden year-bearer pages (Dresden 25c-28c) K'atun 13 Ahaw illustrated on Paris 3 Flood scenes of the Dresden codex and the Temple of the Fisherman Mural Page 46 of the Dresden Venus table Page 22 of the Paris codex Creation imagery associated with a quadripartite structure of the world

5 FIGURES ll.l Comparison of Colonial double- and single-headed eagles Cave drawings of Colonial personification heads Yucatecan Colonial manuscripts with personification heads Cave drawings of turtle-ajaws Cave drawings of horses and riders Cave drawings with Colonial-style traits Colonial figural drawings Illustration from folio 113 of the Chilam Balam ofkaua Ceramic Maya effigy censers Map showing major stone and clay "image cults" uncovered during the Colonial period, Details of possible tun or stone idol images from the Maya codices Mayafigures cutting and carving wooden idols or masks Maya deity-priest making an offering to what may be a clay deity image or censer from the Madrid codex Clay "idols"/god images and typical clay effigy censers Map showing the distribution of censer forms at Maya sites Postclassic Yukatek Ah Muzencab K'axob Preclassic quadripartite-cross vessel Chipicuaro Preclassic cup Classic Palenque Temple 14 k'awil bundle Modern Yukatek-Mayan communicating skeletal bundle Modern Yukatek-Mayan communicating cross Map of Mayapan Mayapan s Q151, the Hall of Chac Masks Mayapan's Q162 pyramid Mayapan's Q152 Round Temple Chen Mul Modeled effigy censer from Mayapan representing Chac Temple of the Fisherman Hall of Sun Disks Seventeen-year-old Lord 8 Deer performing cave rituals Pilgrimage to the Sun Oracle Cenote adjacent to the oracle shrine of San Gervasio Chen Pita Cave Xcaret Cave Temple Carved wooden lintel from Temple 1 at Tikal VIII

6 Late Postclassic figurine cache set in the fill of Santa Rita Corozal Structure FIGURES Late Classic stucco building frieze from Caracol Structure B16-2nd Carved stone vessel from Early Classic tomb at Santa Rita Corozal Late Classic carved stone Stela 7 from Machaquila, Guatemala Stela 18 from Caracol, Belize Altar 1 from Zacpeten, Guatemala Ceramic vessel from Uaxactiin, Guatemala Late Postclassic cache from Santa Rita Corozal Structure 37 Map of Postclassic archaeological sites in the central Peten lakes region and the possible corridor between Tipu and Nojpeten (Tah Itza) Complex I and Historic structures at Tipu, Belize Complex I, Tipu, Belize Kowoj technological style pottery Principal component plots of strong-acid digestion ICP-MS analysis of Postclassic slipped wares LA-ICP-MS elemental concentration bivariate plots of exterior slips Map of the Lacandon region with modern settlements and archaeological sites Lacandon trade goods from El Caobal, Peten, Guatemala Lacandon god pot, El Mangal, Peten, Guatemala Tlaloc iconography Lacandon god pots Dancing warrior at K'umarkaj Coban Mows procession Distribution of conquest dance-plays in Guatemala Framed aperture shown on a four-holed tubular flute Goiter flute with bat-head goiter Drummer with other musicians, Lubaantiin Maximon hung from a post adorned with willow branches Map of the Footpath of the Sun, Footpath of the Dawn Holy Week procession of Maximon Nabeysil dancing the Martin bundle Preconquest jaguar stone, Tigre, of the Cofradia Ch'eep San Juan IX